| Meaning | The act of adjusting something to match a standard. |
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| Synonyms | adjustment, registration |
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| Narrower | alignment | The act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other |
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| collimation | The accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope |
| synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing, synchronising | An adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison |
| temperament | An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys |
| tune-up | adjustments made to an engine to improve its performance |
| voicing | The act of adjusting an organ pipe (or wind instrument) so that it conforms to the standards of tone and pitch and color |
| Broader | calibration, standardization, standardisation | The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument |
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| Spanish | reajuste |
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| Catalan | reajustament |
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